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As the release date approaches for the Silver Circle Movie, we’re going to need a team of dedicated fans to help out in the cities where we debut. We’re calling these elite volunteers The Rebel Crew. We’ve created Facebook pages for the cities where we’re likely to have upcoming screenings, but if you don’t see your city represented feel free to start a page of your own and we’ll add it to the list. We’ll go where the fans are.

Websites that link to pirated music and movies or sell counterfeit goods could soon be blocked in America.

While poking around for Rebels on Facebook I came across this group that is promoting an idea so awesome I had to spread the word. The group is called Rebel Road and they’re hosting a public event they’re calling a Free Market Flash Mob. They invite everyone to bring whatever they have to sell or trade to Balboa Park in San Diego. They boast “No Permission! No Permits! The parks are ours and we have the right to self-sustain by utilizing them how we see fit, when we see fit.”

In Syria, Bashar Assad’s regime has mounted a sophisticated surveillance program that monitors the Internet for dissidents using an arm of the military known as The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). But wherever there’s tyranny there is rebellion.

A cyber-rebel group called the Pirates of Aleppo has mounted an online resistance and one such rebel is developing some exciting rebel tech. Ahmad Heidar is best known by his online name, “Harvester” and he’s been hacking the SEA directly from his hideout right over the border in southern Turkey.

A local councilman tells the cops on a kid selling cup cakes in the park. The cops tell him he has to get a permit to sell CUPCAKES in the park.

How free market in standup comedy business manages to work out intellectual property protection without any litigation whatsoever

For the next 5 weeks we’re going to hold 5 contests giving away Guy Fawkes masks as prizes. This week we're asking for entries of Rebel Poetry.

The bursting of the Bitcoin bubble

BITCOIN, briefly the world’s favorite cryptocurrency, is in trouble. It plummeted from a peak of around $33 per unit in June to just $2.51. In May Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Pirate Party in Sweden, famously blogged that he was converting all of his Swedish-crown savings to Bitcoins. Five months on, he tweeted that after “hoarding” Bitcoins until they hit $18 or so, he had moved to a “buy-and-sell pattern”. Mostly sell, it seems. “I currently don't hold any,” he admitted.

FBI agents raided the home of two college students as part of an investigation into fraudulent sales or purchases of virtual currency that people use to advance in the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft. Authorities seized laptop computers, hard drives, video game systems, credit cards, a cell phone, paperwork and other computer equipment. "They took all my stuff," said one of the students, although authorities made no arrests.